Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43:5

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Some More From Lost Daughters of China

Here's a little more from the book:- The only time a birthdate is really certain is if a mother delivers in a hospital, giving a false name usually, and then disappears, leaving the baby behind, or when birth parents leave a note with the child containing basic information. Otherwise the birthdate is an estimate, picked at random or for convenience. It's not unusual for a pediatrician here to disagree with the assigned birthdate. - Ethnic minorities within China - there are numerous strains, particularly in the borderlands, but they add up to less than 10 percent of the population as a whole and were in some cases diminishing - were routinely aloud 2 children.- Forced sterilizations, mandatory insertions of metal IUDs - which could be monitored by X ray to make sure they remained in place - became commonplace assaults on the women of China, as did forced abortions, even at full term. (Broken Earth, The Rural Chinese by Steven W. Mosher, 1983) (Human Rights in China documents "Caught Between Tradition and the State," 1995) (Slaughter of the Innocence: Coercive Birth Control in China by John Aird 1990)- Officials of the Women's Federation of the Communist Party kept track of women's monthly cycles, and listed those to be sterilized and those required to have IUDs inserted. (A Mother's Ordeal by Steven W. Mosher, 1993)

About Me

I am a wife to a wonderful man, and a mother of five beautiful, healthy children. If I had time, I would get organized, read, research stuff, exercise (pressing on!), and take more naps. We live in the great state of Oklahoma. Life is good. God is great!

A List of Common Adoption World Abbreviations and Terms

SWI - Social Welfare Institution, the orphanage, but also sometimes an orphanage and a home for the elderly

SN - Special Need, some of the families request a child with a special need, we have chosen not to

LID - Log In Date, the date your dossier is officially logged in in China

Travel Group - All the other families who have the same DTC/LID date as we do and we will all travel together unless one of them chooses a child with a special need. Usually all the referrals in a group come from the same orphanage, which will be another thing we will have in common with our travel group.

I-171h - a PPP that we waited 6 weeks on so we could finish our dossier

USCIS - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

Bethany - Our adoption case worker at Dillon who is very patient and has a great sense of humor

Dillon - Our adoption agency, which we love, is based in Tulsa, but serves many parts of the country, and it's Christian based

PPP - Pretty Peace of Paper, once you have received the pesky one it becomes the pretty one ;)

PPP - Pesky Piece of Paper, which is any piece of important paper you are waiting on

Referral - The first picture you see of the child you have been matched with and a brief medical history